FAREWELL TO AN ICON
‘Chris was simultaneously the most glamorous and adventurous person who’d ever walked among us.’
Nadette De Visser, the author of Jeruzalem/Quds, writes from Amsterdam about issues of culture and conflict.
XTC INC
The Dutch government and Dutch society failed to realize the country had moved from consuming drugs to producing them, and on a global scale.
HIDING OUT
There’s no question the folks living in makeshift rooms below a remote farmhouse in the Dutch Bible Belt were odd. But the depths of their weirdness have yet to be plumbed.
CAUGHT
Authorities have arrested Turkish-born Gökmen Tanis, 37, in connection with a shooting on a busy tram in Utrecht, Netherlands, that killed three people and injured several others.
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RISKY BUSINESS
Saif ul Malook fought to keep Pakistan from hanging a Christian woman accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed. He won. But now she—and he—are in fear for their lives.
BRUISES
A Dutch coroner tells The Daily Beast what he knows (and doesn’t) about the mysterious death in Malaysia of 18-year-old Ivana Smit. Her family’s lawyer floats a new theory.
MERCY ME
As Mosul falls and Raqqa comes under attack, European jihadists have decided they don’t really love death more than their enemies love life. But… nobody wants them back.
A NEW WAVE?
Jihadists know their old strategies are failing, and they’re looking for a new approach—but nobody’s sure what that is.
Populist Setback
Geert Wilders doesn’t just want to ban travel from Muslim-majority nations, he wants to ban the Quran itself. But Dutch voters just handed him a defeat.
Bottled-Up Blond
North of what will possibly be Marine le Pen’s France, another right wing populist is making a serious bid to rule the Netherlands.
